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Jo hun.......found this on Bounty website!
News to me as it was deffo 16 weeks with Mabel and Izaak.......will need to ask HV myself now........not sure if it's different for formula fed babies or just general advise for all ??


When should I start weaning?

The Department of Health
recommends exclusive
breastfeeding for the first six
months. Unless otherwise advised
by your health professional, solid
foods in any form (baby jars,
cereals or rusks) should not
be started any earlier than
6 months.
Many mums favour delaying
weaning a bit longer and
continuing to breastfeed, as
breastmilk is such a perfect food
for a baby.Your baby does need
to start eating some solids at
about six months, though, as milk
alone will not give her all the
nutrients she needs as she enters
the second half of her busy

Kai had his injection yesterday. It went really well, because he was asleep most of the time. The Dr said he's gained weight, but slightly under weight 8lbs 10oz, which she said can be normal. But they'll want to check it next time.

I've been setting his day time routine from 6am to 8pm, but he can't keep up. So I'm going to shorten his day, 9am to 8pm.

He has nappy rash at the moment and I'm not sure how to cure it. Anyone have any good remadies. I use Vasaline, which until now, kept it away. But there was one night where I didn't use it and I'm convinced that's how he got it. Has anyone else got nappy rash?

Anyone dredding bonfire weekend with all the banging keeping baby up and lack of sleep??

Finally. I'm cutting back or out the bottle feeds, because I think it's effected my breast milk. My boobs arn't as big and they don't leak if I miss a feed. (Sorry TMI). Has this happened to anyone else?

JOANNE Congrats on loosing the weight!! It will also help with conceiving baby number 2. Hey, you'll have to change your user name to 2nd time mummy!! I hope Joel gets well soon. Sorry to hear about your mum and hope she gets well soon. As for your poo dilema, why don't you send it by local corrier? On the weaning front, my mum weaned me at 6months and my brother at 4 months (he was a hungry baby). I won't wean Kai, until he is 6 months. I can't really leave it longer then that, because of returning to work.

BABYUSA Thanks for the tips and the website. I don't think I could go back to feeding on demand, because I was mistaking his tired crys for hungry crys and then started relying on the boob and laying on a person to get him to sleep. Now he can get himself to sleep. But I will make his routine less demanding and cluster feed in the evenings. Also, if he is cranker than normal, I'll know it's a growth spurt I guess and give him more. See how I go.

ZOGAR Glad your injections went well.

SUMMER Firstly great news about the twins weight. It sounds like for all the choices you've been given about what to do with the twins, that they already have a great loving mother. And therefore no choice you make would be wrong, because that is the greatest thing any child could have!! (Sorry dads count too, but there in your belly) :-) How did your hospital appointment go yesterday?

Take care all (it's taken me 5 hours to write this lot) >:-(

Hi girls

Hope you're all ok.

Summer - keep hanging in there hun - the weeks are flying by and it will soon be time for your boys to come into the world - then whatever is meant to be will be. Thinking of you xxxx

Autumn - I just wondered if the change in the clocks threw Kai out - glad he's back on track for you. I bought a copy of Baby Whisperer today just out of curiosity (and coz I'm fed up of carrying D around (thanks for the info btw) - but the good news is that she actuaaly had a 45 min nap in her moses basket this morn - hooray!!!

Joanne - as far as weaning is concerned I can only echo what everyone else has said - 6 months is the recommended time to wait these days (it ws 4 months when I had dd and ds) and as there is a query over lactose intolerance it is probably worth hanging in for the duration. Baby uSA has a good point about not using baby rice as a starter but using pure fruit/veg instead - apart from anything else, babyrice smells and tastes revolting (like wallpaper paste!!) - my dd wouldn't have anything to do with it and so I didn't even bother trying it with ds!

Zoe - glad Violet's imms went ok - D has hers on Monday and I can't promise I won't cry! It just seems such a lot for their little bodies to deal with. Oh well, for the best I guess.

Well we tried Darcey with a bottle of expressed milk this morning and it worked like a dream - I had bought some of the new Tommee Tippee Back to Nature bottles and she took 3oz straight off (partly from dp and partly from me) and then had a top up from me - so at least I know that she will take a bottle if necessary. The current plan is still to keep on breastfeeding but to supplement if necessary or just be able to give her a bottle of formula (fed up with expressing - too much like hard work) if I want to go out - that's the plan anyway!!

I'm looking forward to having her weighed on Monday, coz sometimes she seems to hardly feed from me at all - hopefully she's just very efficient - she certainly seems to be getting heavier.

Anyway - take care all of you - hi to anyone I've missed and catch up soon.

Ali + Darcey
xxxxx

Hi Autumn - x posted you!!!

Nappy rash - you need Metanium cream (available from all good chemists) - it really is good - much better than sudocream etc BUT use if very sparingly (it says use a pea sized amount on the tube but that is too much - you need to be able to see the skin through the cream - if you see what I mean). Used it with both dd, and ds and now with Darcey where it has worked a treat. Also, try to allow Kai to have a period each day without a nappy on (let him play on the floor on a towel or changing mat for a while) to let the air get to his bits.

Hope that helps

Ali
xxx

ALI The clocks only threw Kai out a little, he ended up going to bed by 6.30 7.00pm. Usually he'd go to bed at 8pm. But I've managed to move him back to his usual time, by letting him nap slightly longer to catch up. I think that makes sence. But the Baby Whisper stuff does work. Even if you don't use it all, you can take from it what you want and it'll help you to read your baby. Stuff like, by the third yawn, start the bedtime/ nap routine. And she's right, because if I let Kai go longer, he gets over tired and goes into total meltdown!! >:'-0 Thanks for the nappy rash tip, i'll get DH to pick up the cream.

Hi girls... sorry no proper replies today.. have to go to my lovely comfy bed asap!

Will keep it short as I can't really focus I'm so tired. Feel like I've got terrible jet lag as I got about 2 hrs sleep last night and was already knackered before that as Daisy was up at 6am on Thurs morning.
Anyway... went for my clinic appt with my consultant yesterday and my bp managed to be a spectacular 185/105 so I was sent straight up to the ward and hooked up to everything in sight and stuck with lots of needles. Loads of fun. BP didn't calm down at all so they gave me 2 lots of something to bring it down straight away and once it was down (to about 145/90) they put me onto the medication I've now been given to bring home and keep taking. Also had 2 horribly painful steroid injections in my hip 12 hours apart to mature the babies lungs should they need to be delivered anytime soon. Had another scan this morning to check the babies were ok and coping with the meds and was let out this afternoon. M/w coming to see me mon or Tues and then got another day assessment unit on thurs.

Zoe... they might need to be delivered early for so many reasons... if this bp business turns into pre-eclampsia, if I start bleeding because of the placent praevia, if Tom soldiers on but starts getting into trouble once hes passed a viable weight (most predictable reason at the mo), or if Jake starts not doing so well and his growth drops off... or if I simply go into labour early which is common with twins.

Right HAVE to go to bed now. Nighty night, lots of love to all mummies and babies xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hurray! We have a break through. Kai slept 9.30pm to 1am and then 2am to 7am (5 hours). So I was right to let him sleep longer. Also read my sleep chapter in my Baby Whisper book and she says babyies aged 1 to 3 months should have 15 to 18 hours of sleep until 18 months. So I've obviously been short changing him in the sleep department!

Also, I woke up with leaking swollen boobs, so I'm no longer worried about my milk supply. Allis as it should be. The only thing is I woke up lop sided, ones massive and the other normal!!

Was reading Your Pregnancy Bible (which actually should be called pregnancy and baby bible). It has a chapter on nappy rash, and I didn't know that thrush can also cause nappy rash. It says that if nappy rash creams and airing his bottom out don't work, then to speak to the GP. Which I guess is common sense really. So it really will be nappy off at play time, better make the house warm.

We've had no water in the house since 9pm last night (it's now 8.17am). Thaems Water said it would be fixed in 6 hours (I don't think they know how to count). The toilet is so disgusting right now, like Glastonbury. Luckly I don't have to make up bottles to. And I have a drop left of Milton Antibacterial Hand Gel for my hands after nappy changing. Also the kettles full, because I always make up one bottle for night time (just in case), which I needed, because Kai got trapped wind and figited on the boob making it too sore to continue.

Finally, I've decided to get a new bed base. We have a normal mattres, but the base is sofa bed (from living in studios). The problem is it creaks something rotten every time I get in it and often wakes Kai if he's in a light sleep.

SUMMER I'm sorry about your ordeal! I hope you got the rest that you needed. On the plus side, it's good that they are looking after you and the babies so well and leaving no stone unturned.

Hope everyones doing well.

Hi Girls,

Hope everyone is well. Sorry i haven't been on recently, have been on holiday for the week. It was lovely to spend some time away together as a family.

Autumn, glad little Kai slept through the night for a bit longer. I've always used Zinc and Castor Oil on Alfie's bum, i think it's a old remedy but he had a sore bum once and it was gone within a day of using it.

Summer, looks like Tom is proving everyone wrong. What a little trouper eh?! Can't imagine what you must be going through as the thought of making such drastic decisions must be awful but we are all thinking of you.

Zoe, how did Violets jabs go? Do they get feverish after the first ones or the second ones. Sorry if you've already said.

Looks like we've had a bit of an about turn with Alfie. The past week he has been very demanding during the day, crying lots and hard to settle. He seems completely inconsolable unless i'm next to him the whole day. If i leave him for longer than 15 minutes he screams until he can see me again. In a way it's nice to feel needed but it does get a bit draining when all you want to do is take a bath or cook some dinner.
I'm hoping it's just a stage he's going through. At the moment he is not sleeping much during the day as he constantly seems to have one eye open checking where i am?
Has anyone else experienced this?
On the plus side he has his last feed at about 7pm, goes to bed and 7.30pm and goes straight to sleep until about 4am when he wakes for a feed. So at least i'm having a bit of time to myself in the evening.

Hope everyone is well

Kai is doing really well now. I'm getting at least 4 hours sleep and he takes his naps. The weekend was a bit unsetalling, because of the fire works. Also we had tasty firemen bang on our door, because next door flooded the downstairs flat. They'd left their tap on and when Thaems fixed the water problem, it flooded the downstairs flat and they were out! Kai didn't appritiate the loud knock and wouldn't go back to sleep.

I'm visiting work tomorrow for the first time. I'm dreading it, because it's so far (1 hour) and he can only put up with about an hour of activity before he gets tired and then starts to cry! I was going on the train, but I've whimped out and am taking a cab. As I am really not ready for Kai to catch someones cold!!

PEARDROP Glad you had a good holiday. Sorry to hear Alfie wanting to be glued to your side. I haven't had that problem yet, but aparently they go in and out of that faze throughout their development. Kai crys longer and harder if his dad is putting down to sleep. At first I would interfear as I felt it was crul to let him cry like that. But then I stopped doing that, because it'll make him dependent on me and Kai and DH would always look to me to get him settled. Or he'd never learn to rely on his dad to settle him.

How's everyone else.

So quiet on here, I can hear an echo!!!!

Visited work today with Kai and his routine made it a dream. He slept in the cab, fed when we got to work, then cooed and smiled at everyone during their lunch and then slept again in the cab home. But it really tired me out and I couldn't really focus on what people were saying.

Got rid of my creaky sofa bed and am now sleeping on the matress on the floor. I'll be ordering a new base this weekend.

Hope everyone is okay and hopefully getting sleep. I imagen you're all catching up from the fireworks keeping you up (as I am).

Wow it has been pretty quiet on here-I guess like me you all manage to read most days but posting with one hand isn't an easy task!! We are doing well and Liberty is growing really fast-she even wears some 3-6months stuff now!!!!
Has anyone thought about xmas pressies for babies yet??? We are thinking of the Baby Einstein Jumparoo as she will be just the right age for it then....anyone else got any ideas???

Anyway-must dash it's evening grumpy time. Glad to hear you are getting on well with Kai's routine Autumn.

Love Baby usa & Liberty

Ali jus wanted to say thanks for ur comments..and yes i did use the TENS..however my labour went so quick at the end (1-10cm in an hr!) that i didnt have time to fiddle with the TENS so had to tk it off... but for the early part it was some relief. thanks for ur tips hope all is well with u and Darcey x

Hi Ladies

No worries I'm not about to give Joel a meal I just thought i'd ask as HV's all giving me different time scales....

Baby you are so right I read everyday but forget when I am free to post what to say, As for christmas pressies I have already bought some the main thing is a learn & groove station.

http://www.woolworths.co.uk/ww_p2/product/index.jhtml?pid=50485987.

Hopefully Joel will have hours of enjoyment from it. Joel is at the docs tomorrow for his 1st imms as they would'nt do them last week & we also get the results from his tests so I am feeling quite anxious although Gp said he was still having his imms so can't be anything serious....

Summer hows things with u??

Got to cook dinner back later

Take care all
Joanne x

Just a quick one-we had our 6 week check today!!! At 9 weeks LOL-all is well and Liberty now weighs 11lb 14oz!! No wonder my arms ache. I like the activity center Jo. Here is the link to the one we are thinking of

https://www.babyeinstein.com/Store/ProductDetail_551.as...Sale=0&ProductQuery=

It looks to have similar things to yours!

Hi Ladies

I hope you are all well!!!

Baby how cute does that Einstien look LOL I want one for me LMAO.....

Summer where r u??

Infact where is everyone?

Were Just back from Docs Joel had his 1st imms finally & I have been proved right it has only taken 6 or 7 weeks but Joel was confirmed Lactose Intolerant, He is now on SMA Wysoy so hopefully he should be better, Gp wants to refer him to a dietician now so will have to decide which hospital to go too... He is also being checked for diabetes but the nurse gave me the dipsicks and said to ring her with the results due to my diabetes she presumes I know what I am doing LOL...

And its not even noon yet oh well time i did the housework we have a chinese collegue & her daughter staying with us til they find somewhere to rent please let it be soon they are out viewing.

Back later

Joanne x